Radiohead fans are a peculiar bunch. They’ll slog through the muck and the mire to watch the band perform outdoors in a deluge and they’ll pay full price for the band’s latest album when they could get it free. But if online message boards are to be believed, they will not condone any attempt to collect the band’s top hits onto a single album. Several hundred people, in fact, have signed an online petition titled “We Don’t Need Radiohead Greatest...

Listening to Black Lungs’ debut full-length album, it’s impossible not to feel as if, in making it, singer/guitarist Wade MacNeil has beaten some very long odds. For the last seven years, MacNeil has played second guitar to early breakout member Dallas Green in post-hardcore, screamo kings Alexisonfire and backup singer to both Green and Alexis screamer George Pettit. Given the size of those two personalities, MacNeil has seen exactly none of the limelight that the band has enjoyed and even...